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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1934

3,472 stories in Sydney's papers · page 34 of 174

Girl Found Injured. Murwillumbah

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 March 1934 · page 12

When the riderless horse of Mavis Duncan, 9, of Byrill Creek, arrived home, the girl's father went in the direction of the school and found his daughter lying unconscious…

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Injured While Asleep. Mudgee

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 March 1934 · page 12

John Hughes, 17 employed by Mr. A. E. Tomkins, Mt. Frome, took milk to the Mt. Frome stalion to place it on the train. While waiting for the train he lay down on the…

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Collision at Rockdale. Man Dies from Injuries

The Propeller · Friday 2 March 1934 · page 2

Laurel Coleman Sloane, of Gordon Street, Brighton-le-Sands, received fatal injuries when his motor car came into collision with a lorry at the…

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Suffered Agony in Accident Man Gets His Hand Caught In Wheel Pulled Along

The Labor Daily · Friday 2 March 1934 · page 7

WHILE his left hand was jammed between a loose wheel on top of a truck, which accidentally moved off as he was…

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Senility Deaths Not As Numerous As Accidents

The Labor Daily · Friday 2 March 1934 · page 8

Figures released yesterday by the Government Statistician reveal that the chances of dying from senile decay these days are remote, if the…

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Skull Fractured in Collision

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 March 1934 · page 10

When his bicycle and a car were in collision in Waterloo Road, Eastwood, last night, Edward Stewart (55), of Herring Road, Eastwood, was…

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Casualties. Doctor Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 March 1934 · page 16

Dr. T. Brown, of Bondi-road, Bondi, received concussion, lacerated wounds to the head and an arm, and, probably, a fractured collarbone, when his car collided with a motor…

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Cyclist Critically Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 March 1934 · page 16

Edward Stewart, 65, of Herring-road, Eastwood, was riding his bicycle and carrying a can of milk in his hand near his home last night when he collided with a motor car…

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Doctor Badly Hurt in Collision

The Labor Daily · Saturday 3 March 1934 · page 5

In a collision between his car and a motor lorry at Clovelly Road and Market Street, Randwick, yesterday, Dr. T. F. Brown, of Bondi…

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Faulconbridge Fatality Main Road Worker's Fall

Nepean Times · Saturday 3 March 1934 · page 3

That Claude Reginald Stevens died from a fracture of the base of the skull and consequent injuries to the brain, such injuries being…

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Drowned During a Fit Griffith

The Sun · Saturday 3 March 1934 · page 5

Douglas Theodore Tasker, 9, son of Mr. Tasker, of Yoogali, was found by his sister drowned in a dam close to his home yesterday. There were two…

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Girl Rider Injured Murwillumbah

The Labor Daily · Saturday 3 March 1934 · page 6

When Mayle Duncan's horse returned riderless, her father searched and found her lying on the road suffering with concussion and a…

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Motor Cyclist Injured Misfortune Follows Misfortune

Nepean Times · Saturday 3 March 1934 · page 4

Particularly unfortunate is Desmond O'Meagher, son of Mr and Mrs L. C. O 'Meagher, of Penrith. It is less than two years since he entered…

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Injured Boy Left on Road by Motorist

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 March 1934 · page 16

Wireless patrols and police from Ryde are searching for a motorist who left a boy lying on the road after he had been knocked down and injured at Ryde last night…

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Consulate Is Attacked Britishers Injured in Turkestan Pekin

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 March 1934 · page 8

During heavy fighting between Turkis and Tungans in the walled city of Kashgar, in the eastern part of Chinese Turkestan, an attack on…

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Man Drowned In Same Waterhole as Brother After Lapse of Several Years. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 March 1934 · page 16

Peter Hall, 39, single, was drowned near Waterloo, Stonehenge, in the Longreach district, on Thursday night in the same waterhole in which his brother was drowned several…

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Accident at Tennis

Nepean Times · Saturday 3 March 1934 · page 1

WHILST playing tennis at "Westbourne," Wallacia. on Wednesday, Mrs Dumbrell, of Roseville, fell and suffered a fracture of her left…

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Accident

Nepean Times · Saturday 3 March 1934 · page 8

Mr A. Borkley, of Blaxland, a porter at Springwood Railway Station, whilst returning home on Friday night last, 23rd inst, on his motor…

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Four in Difficulties, One Drowned Adelaide

Truth · Sunday 4 March 1934 · page 14

FOUR employees of the South Australian Brewing Co. to-day went, fishing. They lost an oar two miles outside the breakwater, and one dived…

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Fatal Fishing Party One Drowned and Four Rescued Adelaide

The Sun · Sunday 4 March 1934 · page 7

David Fennell, 50, a member of a fishing party, was drowned to-day following a mishap to a boat in the Outer Harbor…

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